ENGLAND TESTED.
GRAVE PROPOSALS. ABSURD SINGAPORE TALES. (United Press Association—Copyright). LONDON, Jan, 31. The First Lord of the Admiralty, V:ir Bolton Eyres-Monsell, speaking at Leicester, said that the moral strength of England was being put to the test by the proposals which she was now making to the world en the grave problem of disarmament. - Those proposals, lie said, were being made, not by one political party, hut by united England, and that fact gave them, the greatest possible weight. The First Lord then referred to what he described as the absurd stories published regarding the recent meeting at Singapore between the nnral Commanders-in-Chief of the East Indies and the China Stations and the Admirals in command of the Australian and New Zealand navies. The meeting, he explained, was merely one of the "periodical routine talks that those naval authorities had together. —British Official Wireless,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 95, 1 February 1934, Page 5
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